Food Inc : what is really behind your food

What is really behind this tasty food
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When I was the same age as you I begged my mom to buy me a happy meal almost every Friday. But there were things  I had to do first like do good in school and be good at home in order to get my mom to take me every Friday. As I grew older I started realizing that my whole purpose in going was for the toys they had  because I liked to collect the toys.
But what can really be behind all this food well let's find out.







In the documentary film food inc as a class we witnessed how food is really made. They also showed the reality of how they treat it before it is packaged in those beautiful packages that you see at the store, And the real thruth behind happy meals from McDonalds.


In 1950 when McDonalds was just a restaurant like any other. Later the Mcdonalds brothers introduced a new assembly line type of operation that made one person do the job and became easier to train and replace the workers.  The question is How do all restaurants get their ingredients to cook their food's and how is everything controlled.

As to this I learned that the percentage of American beef supply is controlled by four companies in a total of 80% . Especially how the names of brands and labels placed on meat and dairy products in the super market are  misleading because, in the movie it stated that packages in a way make you think that animals had a beautiful life and have pictures of them in a beautiful farm.  But there is at least two ways I learned how chickens are physically different now than they were in the 1950's now chickens are having big breasts  because they genetically inherit genes and also give them hormonal treatment that takes them 49 days to grow full.

While they were filming this movie Vince Edwards a chicken grower for Tyson, was not given permission to allow the filmmakers inside his chicken houses. The reason is that they didn't want the people to see the thruth of what is really behind meat and other products. Why is meat so cheap in the first place I'll will tell you why.

In the section of this movie called a cornucopia of choices  it told us about how about 30% of the United States land mass is used to grow corn explaining the role that government policy plays in making corn such a dominant crop. Because farmers are paid to overproduce food they grow corn and sell it at a cheap price. It also told us about why would the large meat suppliers would be interested in lobbying the government for subsidize for corn. This is because the government was paying to overproduce making higher profits the get really cheap corn to feed their animals at a low cost. For example three products that are partially made of corn are ketchup, coke, and twinkies. The movie also told us how cattle and other ruminants have evolved to eat grass, a problem that has emerged as a result of feeding corn to cattle instead  is because it makes them fat quickly. To get rid of really deadly  bacteria that goes into the meat something you get from heat excrement related so to this they will have to eat grass 5 days full to get rid of this bacteria that kills humans.

Another section from this movie is unintended consequences where Kevin kowwalcyk who died in 2001
of Hemolytic-Uremic syndrome caused by eating ground beef contaminated with E.coli the deadly bacteria and explained to us how the U.S government was somewhat responsible for Kevin's death. The movie told us that in August 1st they figured out about the virus and inspectors did nothing until august 27 so yes they were responsible for Kevin's death.

Some additive used in some meat fillers to prevent this E.coli contamination is a type of Ammonia hydroxide that helps kill the bacteria.

Another section was the dollar menu what kinds of foods are the cheapest why fast food products are
 the cheapests why because they are made out of subsidize corn we give the government money to pay for corn production . How does obesity, diabetes, and poverty are linked because in a way medication for diabetes is expensive and what is left is to buy cheap food ( dollar menu ) type 2 diabetes is an abundant of too much salt, sugar, and fat.

This  section was about the grass according to the USDA Joel Salatin's farm who is considered "unsanitary" why ? Because it's noisy, smelly, and unsanitary but according to what he stated in the film during an interview they produce organic food no supplement is being added and they do care about their consumers, not care about how much profit they make.

Now I'll tell you how  large meat packing plants gets most of its workers it is thru NAFTA the North American free trade mark, they get the employees from Mexico because they have too pay them really low and they couldn't really tell what was going on because for them is a job money that they need but the companies sends police ice to pick them in their house and deport them back to Mexico. What is behind all of this....

Another section in this movie was hidden costs why might the cheap costs of industrial food be dishonest or misleading according to the movie it said that nothing is true about the foods  either
environmental, societal, and health cost. Another section was The veil how are food corporations protected by laws so they wouldn't get sewed these laws are not in the best interestet to their
consumers because what they really care about is making profit.

In conclusion we learned the truth behind our food and how some tags in the packages cause confusion in the consumers making them think the animals we get our meat from were raised humanly  as to this you might be confused on the next step you will take in regards of eating meat or not I hope this information was helpful.

This is a deadly bacteria that can be  caused by  unhealthy products 

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America's Food Supply

      Perdue is a major chicken processing company based in Salisbury, Maryland, United States last year they made about 6 billion dollars. The third largest annually producing 59,320,000.
According to Nicholas Kristof and his article titled Abusing chickens we eat published by the New York times he states his argument saying that chickens should be treated and raised humanly its is also to show people that Perdue is a hypocrite because they are putting labels that are misleading. According to the evidence stated in the article that per dues chickens are being cramped so tightly and most shocking is that the bellies of the chickens are raw and flesh they became featherles and how they are now bred to have hugebreast. The best quote I found in the article doing "the right thing is things like treating your chickens humanely" I choose it because many people brag about doing the right thing but yet they stile need to keep in mind to treat the chickens humanely.  My opinion of this article changed my perspective in eating chicken yes it totally changed my perspective in eating chicken yes I would be more careful in choosing the food I eat.
People in 1906 in America had poor living conditions they had no control of safety food and had flies everywhere. How did the meat inspection act help Americans. It helped them to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as foods and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

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                                       This is an example of how chickens are being crowded and not taken care of

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                                           This is how chickens cannot even walk because of all the weight they are exposed to

Public education and inequality

    The reason for creating public schools was because they wanted to train the kids for a better job and have American citinzenship it was the key to a greater financial security and social status. Their was benefits of public schools but also problems like students being miserable not being able to go or not knowing the new rules. Public schools helped families offering them help with child care for employed mothers they took children out of factories and sweatshops they thought children how to read write do math and English language.  Schools also perpetuate inequality because equal opportunities differed sharply for black and white children and also religions having different schools for each race. Some other issues that schools had were is that some people resented replacing their native languages in favor of English catholics were especially concerned because many public schools systems had mandatory reading from the protest.

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                                                             First free public school

                                             Shows how kids got their education 

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" what happened to the 43"

One night on September 2014 college students were ambushed the 3 buses they were stopped by the police in a town named Iguala in the state of Gerrero as a consequence 6 people were killed and who their is known 43 students were kidnapped and until now are missing.

Whom suspects known to demand and stop the 3 buses they were in were Jose Luis Abarca and his Wife Maria de los angeles pineda  who is the mayor  and his wife.

These students are from a school named the Ayotzinapal school whos mission was to teach people to rise up, train future teachers the students who attend are from families that live in poverty or they are farmers.

But who would of thought all this could of happen just because the government who is in power do not agree with the political beliefs of the ayotzinapal students is because their beliefs are not following what they have in place the Government does not want them to stand up by themselves and make them feel powerless.

The reaction of the mexican people to the missing students was anger towards the gov the people also confronted them with weapons because they had no choice and went in search for the students.

The government reaction towards the missing students was just abandoning the people.

The mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto also contributed to locate the missing students by signing a document promising the parents that the gov would look for students alive. and to make this even worse the governor of guerrero quit his job.    
 



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This is a picture of how the people are protesting that they want their kids back 

This is a picture of all the violence going on in iguala Gerrero http://goo.gl/shU9Ga